[Northkeep] Talana Plunders Medici Bank - Film at Eleven

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greetings

 well congratulations on what sounds like a terrific raid on your part ; )

Be Safe , Be Happy, Have Fun .
Arthur
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jennifer Carlson" <talana1 at hotmail.com>
To: "northkeep lists.ansteorra.org" <northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 4:05 PM
Subject: [Northkeep] Talana Plunders Medici Bank - Film at Eleven


>
> Good evening, Northkeep,
>
> Since some of you may see it on the news tomorrow, I figured I'd best be 
> pre-emptive and explain why you will see me acting like an idiot on TV. . 
> . .
>
> A couple of years ago, I found a broken pendant on the sidewalk.  Although 
> the markings on the back were worn nearly away, I could tell it was good 
> stuff, not electroplated.  I put it in my pocket, because that's what you 
> do with things you find when you're out walking, and when I got home I 
> tossed it in a drawer and forgot about it, until last month, during the 
> blizzard.
>
> After three days stuck at home, I had cleaned the house, reorganized my 
> fabric stash (no mean feat, that), and had gotten down to straightening 
> out my desk drawers, when the pendant resurfaced.  I thought "gold prices 
> have shot up over the last couple of years.  I ought to sell this."  I put 
> it back in the now semi-tidy drawer, and again forgot about it until last 
> week, when I was helping a friend clean out her mother's house, and she 
> made a remark about having found a place to sell some old coins and 
> jewelry.  I remembered I needed to sell that pendant, since Diarmaid and I 
> will be driving to Virginia in March (while you all are at Gulf Wars), and 
> every little bit helps when gas prices are what they are.  A few days 
> later, a co-worker suggested I use Tulsa Gold and Gems (this is a 
> shameless plug for TG&G, but you'll understand in a minute), which is 
> close to where I live.  I had some errands to do in that part of town on 
> Saturday, so I stuck the pendant in my pocket and head
> ed over.
>
> Let me tell you, the spirit of the di Medici lives on.  You go from the 
> street into a tiny hallway, and from thence into an elevator.  An elevator 
> that is, I must say, obscenely tricked out in oak paneling and 
> acanthus-leaf crown molding.  It deposits you in a hallway of rich, dark 
> wood lined with benches, which made me recall my Roman history professor 
> talking about the great Roman patricians and how their cliente (people who 
> wanted to get favors from/do business with them) would wait in the 
> vestibule of the patrician's villa for their turn to do business.  After 
> getting past the door guard - a security lock by which you are buzzed into 
> an inner chamber - I filled out some paperwork, and was instructed to wait 
> until they had assayed my paltry little pendant.  I sat on a very nice 
> leather sofa, watching three HD TVs, mounted on walls covered in gold-tone 
> wall paper and more expensive panelling, and decided that this definitely 
> was the modern equivalent of the business wing of
>  a Florentine palazzo.
>
> A few minutes later, a clerk called my name, and gave me a very good price 
> for my little piece of gold.  He told me that Tulsa Gold and Gems holds a 
> contest every month in which you guess what the closing price of gold will 
> be on the last business day of the month.  I asked what it had closed at 
> on Friday, considered that the Asian and Middle Eastern markets would be 
> open on Sunday, and that the craziness raging in Bahrain and Libya wasn't 
> going to resolve overnight, and rattled off a figure.
>
> Well, I won.  I came within seven cents of nailing yesterday's closing 
> price.  So, this morning, I stepped into the Money Booth, a plexiglass 
> case the size of a small shower stall, with a pile of cash on the floor. 
> They locked me in and turned on a fan, and gave me thirty seconds to catch 
> as many flying bills as I could.  For half a minute, I grabbed money and 
> stuffed it into my sweater like a mad woman.  My take came to $1,170.
>
> I declare to one and all that I am more than satisfied with my first Tulsa 
> Gold and Gems customer experience.
>
> You can watch my brazen display of greed and my total lack of dignity on 
> Channel 6 tomorrow on the 10:00 pm broadcast.  And yes, Diarmaid took 
> pictures and will post them on his Flickr page tonight.
>
> Feeling like a condottieri after a good campaign season,
>
> Talana
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